(notes from the homonimous session at the bdigital Global Congress)
Moderator: Miquel Mateu
Tim KellySuccess factors for national ICT strategies: Case studies from global leaders
How do we recognise and measure success in ICTs?
Universal service:
Avaiability
Accessibility
Affordability
But new concerns or challenges that should be included in ICT measuring:
Participation
Quality and intensity of access
Lifestyle enhancement
Ubiquity of access: At anytime, by anyone, anywhere, to anything
Different perceptions of what quality is: reliability? time of response? depending on user and use.
For instance, in terms of proportion of Internet users, the digital divide is shrinking, but new types of digital divide are appearing, the most important of all, the broadband divide: broadband costs...
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iCities is a Conference about Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation.Here come my notes for session IV.
Round Table: mGovernment. The Mobile Phone and its integration in e-GovernmentChairs: Nacho Campos
What is a mobile phone
Mobile
A device you use every day
110% of penetration
Many features
Tomy Ahonen: the mobile phone is the 7th medium:
Personal
Always on
Always with us
Integrated paying method
Immediate tool
mGovernment: how the Administration adapts itself to the nomadic style of the citizen (The Economist)
Goal: from m-murmur to m-chat to m-conversation (unidirectional, bidirectional, multidirectional).
Barriers:
Lack of leadership, political and technical
Infrastructures
Resistance to change of public servants
Telecommunication Operators
Lack of communication plans...
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iCities is a Conference about Blogs, e-Government and Digital Participation.Here come my notes for session I (part II).
Opening Session (part II)
Chairs Carmen Sánchez-Carazo
Intelligent CitiesJosé Gumersindo García
ICTs will improve the image that public administrations have before the citizenry: proximity, transparency, etc.
e-Administration and Modernization go hand in hand and they are co-requisites for the development of both.
The Public Sector does have to bet on digital literacy training for their public servants. But not only their employees, but also firms. With this digital literacy many projects can take place: instant messaging for better communication, datasharing through wireless networks, e-commerce, etc.
Free software is very important for the Public Sector, and again,...
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From a recent Fortune magazine that I read that most companies in S&P have been rated as risky. This represents a huge challenge for companies as new emerging economies such as India, China or other countries mean new business models which have to be sustainable and scalable and I do not think that there are in most text books or case studies of......
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There's been a recent hype around the use of mobile technologies to "empower" people to submit reports "from the field", take action and change the course of society...
Somehow, just like we were promised that TV would educate people and that the Internet would free us all, we've heard it all before, yet we have to see it......
Cellphone applications today are often focused on, in some sense simplified, displaying the web page to the cellphone. The web pages are more or less exclusively designed only considering the restrains of a regular work station. This is perhaps one most important challenge in future cellphone solutions and in many ways this is a philosophical challenge rather than a technological challenge. Nevertheless, I will not try to fully address the challenge in this blog post, but indicate what I believe are the key elements of it and sketch the......
Attached is a New York Times article from Davos about Microsoft's response to the One Laptop Per Child project by MIT's Negroponte. They propose using a cellphone as a computer connected to a TV and a keyboard. I don't know about the feasibility of Microsoft's proposal but the fact that they have one demonstrates the power of OLPC, open-source and market dynamics....
Electronic Governance, in simplest terms, it refers to those governance processes in which Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are playing an active role in delivering governance related products and......
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